It’s MS Awareness Week across the Nation!

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March 11-17 people will be creating connections stronger than those MS destroys. MS Awareness Week is a time when people all over the nation will connect with others to share knowledge and take action to increase awareness about the disease.

Multiple Sclerosis is a disease of the nervous system affecting the brain and spinal cord. It leaves no visible scars, no marks or bruising, no obvious wasting of the muscles. Depending on the severity of the disease for that individual, you might have no way of knowing that they have it just by looking at them. Most people with the disease are able to walk and use their hands, at least in the early stages. If you were to see a person with multiple sclerosis you might not be able to tell any difference between them and everyone else in the room…..however, that person may be suffering in ways that are invisibe to you that make their life and day more difficult than you realize.

Multiple Sclerosis is an auto-immune disease that is not contagious. It is not an infection but is a disorder of the immune system where our body makes antibodies that attack the myelin or the insulating sheath around our neves….If you think of a power cord it would be like peeling the plastic covering off. This can cause touching wires to short circuit or spark and can also cause damage to the neurons themselves. All kinds of strange and uncomfortable things can happen from numbness and paralysis to blindness to sensory changes to vertigo and painful electric shocks and trembling and many more odd symptoms.

Educate yourself as to what those around you may be dealing with. Help if you can.